Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 15:01:58 -0400 From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-mosquito.com> Subject: Re: exhibition, introduction >As part of the exhibition itself it might be appropriate to >clarify the way Surrealism differs from various of its >"sibling-movements", such as abstract expressionism, pop, >Cobra, situationism, and other movements such as dada and >post-modernism (plus all the versions of "neo-dada"). We all >know, that many people have rather strange ideas about >what Surrealism really is, and this might be one way of finally >getting things right. It could be used as a kind of introduction >to the exhibition. >What do you think? This sounds like an unfortunately necessary idea. At the same time, I don't like it. If we need a disclaimer to prove we're surreal, then surrealism is dead... I think we discussed this problem some time ago... -- Michael Betancourt E-mail: mwb2-AT-mosquito.com Index to Web Sites: http://www.mosquito.com/~mwb2
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